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Underwater monocular SLAM is a challenging problem with applications from autonomous underwater vehicles to marine archaeology. However, existing underwater SLAM methods struggle to produce maps with high-fidelity rendering. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kangxu Wang , Shaofeng Zou , Chenxing Jiang , Yixiang Dai , Siang Chen , Shaojie Shen , Guijin Wang

Research in Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is increasingly moving towards richer world representations involving objects and high level features that enable a semantic model of the world for robots, potentially leading to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Niko Sünderhauf , Michael Milford

There are many possibilities for how to represent the map in simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM). While sparse, keypoint-based SLAM systems have achieved impressive levels of accuracy and robustness, their maps may not be suitable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tristan Laidlow , Andrew J. Davison

Object-level SLAM introduces semantic meaningful and compact object landmarks that help both indoor robot applications and outdoor autonomous driving tasks. However, the back end of object-level SLAM suffers from singularity problems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yutong Hu , Wei Wang

Object-oriented SLAM is a popular technology in autonomous driving and robotics. In this paper, we propose a stereo visual SLAM with a robust quadric landmark representation method. The system consists of four components, including deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Rui Tian , Yunzhou Zhang , Yonghui Feng , Linghao Yang , Zhenzhong Cao , Sonya Coleman , Dermot Kerr

Accurate perception of objects in the environment is important for improving the scene understanding capability of SLAM systems. In robotic and augmented reality applications, object maps with semantic and metric information show attractive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Xiao Han , Houxuan Liu , Yunchao Ding , Lu Yang

Object-level data association and pose estimation play a fundamental role in semantic SLAM, which remain unsolved due to the lack of robust and accurate algorithms. In this work, we propose an ensemble data associate strategy for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yanmin Wu , Yunzhou Zhang , Delong Zhu , Yonghui Feng , Sonya Coleman , Dermot Kerr

Aiming at the application environment of indoor mobile robots, this paper proposes a sparse object-level SLAM algorithm based on an RGB-D camera. A quadric representation is used as a landmark to compactly model objects, including their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Ziwei Liao , Wei Wang , Xianyu Qi , Xiaoyu Zhang , Lin Xue , Jianzhen Jiao , Ran Wei

Loop closure, as one of the crucial components in SLAM, plays an essential role in correcting the accumulated errors. Traditional appearance-based methods, such as bag-of-words models, are often limited by local 2D features and the volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Zhenzhong Cao

Object Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems struggle to correctly associate semantically similar objects in close proximity, especially in cluttered indoor environments and when scenes change. We present Semantic Enhancement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jungseok Hong , Ran Choi , John J. Leonard

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a foundational component in robotics, AR/VR, and autonomous systems. With the rising focus on spatial AI in recent years, combining SLAM with semantic understanding has become increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jisang Yoo , Gyeongjin Kang , Hyun-kyu Ko , Hyeonwoo Yu , Eunbyung Park

We present an on-line 3D visual object tracking framework for monocular cameras by incorporating spatial knowledge and uncertainty from semantic mapping along with high frequency measurements from visual odometry. Using a combination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Prateek Singhal , Ruffin White , Henrik Christensen

We propose SNI-SLAM, a semantic SLAM system utilizing neural implicit representation, that simultaneously performs accurate semantic mapping, high-quality surface reconstruction, and robust camera tracking. In this system, we introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Siting Zhu , Guangming Wang , Hermann Blum , Jiuming Liu , Liang Song , Marc Pollefeys , Hesheng Wang

We present a fast, scalable, and accurate Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system that represents indoor scenes as a graph of objects. Leveraging the observation that artificial environments are structured and occupied by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Akash Sharma , Wei Dong , Michael Kaess

We propose a novel visual SLAM method that integrates text objects tightly by treating them as semantic features via fully exploring their geometric and semantic prior. The text object is modeled as a texture-rich planar patch whose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Boying Li , Danping Zou , Yuan Huang , Xinghan Niu , Ling Pei , Wenxian Yu

Despite recent advances in semantic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for terrestrial and aerial applications, underwater semantic SLAM remains an open and largely unaddressed research problem due to the unique sensing modalities…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kurran Singh , Jungseok Hong , Nicholas R. Rypkema , John J. Leonard

We investigate a scenario where a chaser spacecraft or satellite equipped with a monocular camera navigates in close proximity to a target spacecraft. The satellite's primary objective is to construct a representation of the operational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lorenzo Ticozzi , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Existence of symmetric objects, whose observation at different viewpoints can be identical, can deteriorate the performance of simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM). This work proposes a system for robustly optimizing the pose of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Taekbeom Lee , Youngseok Jang , H. Jin Kim

This paper presents a feature encoding method of complex 3D objects for high-level semantic features. Recent approaches to object recognition methods become important for semantic simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). However, there…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-31 H. W. Yu , B. H. Lee

Monocular vision-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is used for various purposes due to its advantages in cost, simple setup, as well as availability in the environments where navigation with satellites is not effective.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Young-Hee Lee , Chen Zhu , Gabriele Giorgi , Christoph Günther